busybox utility

[naveen yadav]

Hi All,

Thanks for your answer.

I want to know is there any similar package like busybox we can use in
embedded product.
I found few of them but could not found as good as busybox. so this is
reason i ask.

1. http://www.fefe.de/embutils/
2. https://github.com/asdf-systems/gobox
3. http://www.landley.net/code/toybox/about.html

For security issue in busybox. I could not find detail but below slide
mention it .
https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/4e9334432deb290054011ba7/slides.pdf

Thanks

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch
<bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
> On Mit, 2011-11-23 at 10:42 +0530, Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
>> > I post on Kernel newbies since i could not found any good place to post.
>
> Why this not good place and not one of the other not good places?
> It's about newbies to the (Linux) kernel as such after all (and not
> about "Linux newbies").
> There probably more people on the busybox list or embutils ML (is there
> one?) who know about "competing products" (what's the socially accepted
> term nowadays for that?).
>
>> > We do not want to use busybox due to its licence and security issue.
>
> For the license part: Well, tough luck. What's the problem with GPLv2?
>
> Perhaps Google finds a similar package with another - proprietary? -
> license.
> There are lots of companies out there, there should be several to choose
> a vendor.
>
>> What security issue are you concerned about? Can you explain your
>> concern a little more.
>>
>> Also, if you have some busybox specific question, ppl on the busybox
>> mailing list will be able to help you better.
>
> For the security part: the busybox list would be eager to hear of any
> problems so that one can fix them.
>
>        Bernd
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> Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at
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>
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